On 13/04/2016 17:41, Brian C. Lane wrote:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 08:46:34AM +0100, Gareth Randall wrote:
Hi,
I just wondered whether you'd had a chance to consider committing this
documentation update, while the list is busy :-)
Do you have a corrected patch?
Apologies for the delay. The patch below incorporates your suggestions,
as discussd in this thread on 11-11-2015.
Hopefully this is okay.
diff --git a/doc/parted.texi b/doc/parted.texi
index cb12e8d..060f3d4 100644
--- a/doc/parted.texi
+++ b/doc/parted.texi
@@ -291,12 +291,38 @@ or you want to modify a root or boot partition,
use GParted Live:
@section Introduction to Partitioning
@cindex partitioning overview
-Unfortunately, partitioning your disk is rather complicated. This is
-because there are interactions between many different systems that need
-to be taken into consideration.
+Partitioning is the process of dividing a storage device into local
+sections, called partitions, which help organize multiple filesystems
+and their associated operating systems.
+
+A storage device presents itself as a sequence of bytes, numbered
+starting from zero and increasing until the maximum capacity of the
+device is reached. Bytes are normally read and written a sector at a
+time, rather than individually. Each sector contains a fixed number
+of bytes, with the number determined by the device.
+
+@example
++------------------------------------------------------------+
+| storage device with no partitions |
++------------------------------------------------------------+
+0 start end
+@end example
+
+In order to store multiple filesystems, a storage device can be divided
+up in to multiple partitions. Each partition can be thought of as an
+area which contains a real filesystem inside of it. To show where these
+partitions are on the device a small table is written at the start,
+shown as PT in the diagram below. This table is called a partition
+table, or disklabel, and also stores the type of each partition and
+some flags.
+
+@example
++--+---------------+----------------+------------------------+
+|PT| Partition 1 | Partition 2 | Partition 3 |
++--+---------------+----------------+------------------------+
+0 start end
+@end example
-This manual used to introduce the reader to these systems and their
-working. This content has moved to the GNU Storage Guide.
@node Running Parted
@section Using GNU Parted
